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I think rather than being greedy, he simply didn't look up. He took his time to get Fabianski to commit himself. That worked beautifully; however, in doing so he slightly unbalanced himself and therefore skewed his chip onto the post.

It was a very bad miss, but far from the worse we've seen at Selhurst in recent years (from ourselves or the opposition).

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I think rather than being greedy, he simply didn't look up. He took his time to get Fabianski to commit himself. That worked beautifully; however, in doing so he slightly unbalanced himself and therefore skewed his chip onto the post.

It was a very bad miss, but far from the worse we've seen at Selhurst in recent years (from ourselves or the opposition).

One turn too many, had keeper on floor off balance had to go for the largest part of the goal , with two palace players coming in .

McArthur's miss on Saturday was nowhere near as bad as Tony Finnigan's circa 1985. Not sure who it was against (Shrewsbury, I think). Ball crossed from the right and Finnigan somehow managed to scope it over the crossbar at the far post from around a couple of yards out. Right in front of the Holmesdale.

He missed a bad one at Hudersfield as well, but for all the 'General' supporters out there sorry but just on general play not chances missed he has to be on the subs bench.
he isn't as good as Meyer period and Luka is our captain so midfield has to be
Kouyate Meyer Miliovejic in a three!!!

Players like McArthur are good squad players and looked very comfortable in the first team alongside players as good as Cabaye and RLC. This season we have Kouyate, Luka and McArthur with players like Schlupp filling in there. McArthur's limitations will be exposed with that midfield around him. Sadly, Meyer hasn't been the player we thought he would be - he has that touch of class that we lack in the middle of the park. Hopefully, Meyer will get acclimatised to the Premier League - if he does, he will make the other two midfielders he plays alongside look better.

I don't agree at all. It feels like you are basing it on rep with the likes of Cabaye etc. McArthur until recently has been one of the better passers, most likely to score and good all-round technical players. He's not fashionable, which in part I think is because he is Scottish.

However, I do feel he's maybe on the wane/decline. I hope I'm wrong and it is merely a spell of form.

I thought he was poor for the 1st half when he played more to the right(him and Ward were a bad combination), in the 2nd he seemed to play more on the left and was better. He had 2 assists today, but really only the 2nd can be called an assist as the first was a poor shot going wide.

Apart from Wilf our best player since he signed in 2014. Some of the comments about him recently are pathetic.

He's been brilliant, one of the few midfield players who can combine a massive amount of defensive work with really good forward runs. He's not a natural dribbler, but is very clever with feints and turns, and links up the front players pretty well. Also doesn't appear to have a big ego on him which is a good thing for team spirit, he just comes in and does a great job, week after week.

People need to remember if he was 'practically perfect in every way', he wouldn't be playing for us

RLC would be a great player if he could combine Macca's defensive work with his own core strengths going forward